LETTER: ALS regarding missionary work with Indians of New York State.
(Native Americans). Thayer, Mary Jane F. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Lancaster, (N. Y.), Aug. 29, 1846. To her cousin, Lucretia Chapman (not the murderess) in Pittsfield, Mass. 3 pp., 4to, in ink. Very good.
A moving letter full of intimate confessional religious sentiment, by a young woman doing missionary work among the Indians of New York State. "I have been teaching all summer among the Indians at Cattaraugus ... Have been perfectly happy there, though I have had to undergo some privations. The work is what I have all my life been anxious to be engaged in. The fondly cherished plans of my heart are beginning to be carried into execution ... There is a great work to be done among the Indians. My heart goes out for them. They are my people. I would gladly spend my life among them ... My faith has been sorely tried, however, but I am now beginning to see some of the fruits of my labors ..."
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